About two-thirds of operating Saudis are hired within the public sector. Their salaries and allowances accounted for 45% of presidency spending in 2015 and contributed against a file deficit.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have already taken different steps to spice up executive coffers.

In Saudi Arabia this incorporated a tax on tobacco and cushy beverages in addition to a lower in some subsidies presented to locals. Within the UAE highway tolls had been higher and a tourism tax offered.